Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but Baen Publishing is hosting a competition for a three to five second animation featuring exploding spaceships. $500 prize.
Baen is a US/International publisher specializing in Sci-fi, specifically military sci-fi.
The clip is going to be a lead in for a presentation of upcoming book covers that they show at sci-fi conventions.
more details at the link, deadline is July 31, 2013.
Sorrry for long absence, I don’t know anything more than whats at the link. Some friends pointed this out to me on Facebook, and I thought there might besome interest here.